Kenyan Ushahidi Co-Founder Wins Award For Outstanding Social Commitment

Juliana Rotich, Ushahidi co-founder and managing director, has been honoured with with an Impact Award at the DLDwomen 2013 conference in Munich.

The award has been initiated to recognise women whose outstanding commitment makes changes in society happen.

Ushahidi, which was set up in the aftermath of the 2007 Kenyan general election,  is an open-source platform which allows users to crowdsource crisis information and get it sent to their mobile.